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Buckalew, Charles R

lawyer, diplomat, United States senator, was born Dec. 28, 1821, in Columbia county, Pa. He was prosecuting attorney for Columbia county from 1845 till 1847, and was elected to the state senate in 1850, and reelected in 1853. He was commissioner to exchange ratifications of a treaty with Paraguay in 1854, serving as such between sessions of the legislature. He was a presidential elector in 1856; and was again elected to the state senate in 1857. He was appointed minister resident of the United States at the republic of Ecuador, which office he filled for three years. He was elected by the legislature in 1863 to the United States senate; was elected to the state senate in 1869, for the fourth time; and was the democratic candidate for governor in 1872. In 1886 he was elected president of the Bloomsburg and Sullivan railroad; and in 1872 published a volume upon Proportional Representation, and in 1883 a work upon the Constitution of Pennsylvania. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat. BUCKELEY, MORGAN GARDNER, governor, was born Dec. 21, 1837, in East Haddam, Conn. During 1880-88 he was mayor of Hartford, Conn.; and in 1889- 93 was governor of the state of Connecticut. Since 1879 he has been president of the Etna Life Insurance company of Hartford, Conn.